July 2017 Hacker News Hiring Trends

Re:July 2017 Hacker News Hiring Trends by lmm on Tuesday August 01, 2017 @09:30AM (#14900385)

I wouldn't regard PHP as solid or corporate. Rather it's usually a sign of a business which started out as a website made by less-technical people. (Which can be the best kind to join as a technical person, as it means your skills are likely to be complementary to what they already have).

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Re:July 2017 Hacker News Hiring Trends by mywittyname on Tuesday August 01, 2017 @11:01AM (#14901336)

It demonstrates that their product is old and web-based, yes, but not that it was put together by less-technical people. In the mid-2000s, PHP held like 80+% of the server-side programming language market, ASP was in the mid 10s, leaving every other language to fight for the remaining 5% or so.

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Re:July 2017 Hacker News Hiring Trends by blowski on Tuesday August 01, 2017 @11:54AM (#14902062)

I don't see how it demonstrates that it's old. I still constantly talk with very new startups that are using PHP.

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